[cma-l] Tune in… to the hidden sounds of a secret world

[Tamar Millen]

*Tune in… to the hidden sounds of a secret world*

/Soundart & Devon Guild launch the Radio Craftperson’s Toolbox/

Have you ever looked at a beautiful, handmade object and wondered what 
it was like to be there when it was created? A new project by sound 
artists and artisans brings the authentic noise of the workshop into 
your home.

The clangs, clinks and whirrs of the craftmaker’s world will be 
broadcast to radio listeners over a 24 hour period on the 3 August. The 
‘Radio Craftperson’s Toolbox’ – a collection of sounds for sampling and 
radio production, is published online this summer.

The producers at Totnes based Soundart Radio (102.5fm), wanted to get 
behind the scenes at a different type of studio, to record the tools, 
textures and talking of real craftspeople at work.  An opportunity arose 
with the Community Media Association’s ‘Modulate’ project, which 
commissions community radio stations to work with arts organisations. 
According to Tamar Millen at the CMA, “/Our aim is to encourage bold 
formats in community media that engage, surprise and excite an audience/.”

Soundart Radio leapt at the chance to team up with the Devon Guild of 
Craftsmen in Bovey Tracey, who helped them handpick a group of West 
Country makers who would be happy to open their doors and reveal what 
goes on inside their studios. The Guild put them in touch with people 
working in crafts as diverse as felting, woodturning and litho printing.

The Soundartists were amazed at what they heard when they visited these 
local studios – the repetitive turning of a traditional printing 
machine, the flare of the potter’s kiln being lit, the rasping sound of 
fibres being pulled apart and the woodturner sharpening his tools. These 
unique and unusual sounds been captured for the first time to create a 
‘Radio Craftperson’s Toolbox’ – a collection of sounds to use in radio 
production and for artists and others to sample

Read more at http://arts.commedia.org.uk/news/hidden-sounds-secret/

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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219

www.arts.commedia.org.uk


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